“How about I have the courtesy of not advocating for wars that I'm not willing to fight in myself. That's my professional courtesy.”
Offers a moral standard for advocating for war, suggesting that those who promote conflict should be willing to participate in it themselves.
Dave Smith
“You can't take God out of the equation because something else just becomes God. The desire to worship is so hardwired into the DNA of the human soul that you just can't say you're an atheist if you want to, but then I'll find out what your religion is pretty quickly. And oftentimes it just becomes yourself.”
This provocative statement argues that humans have an intrinsic need for worship or ultimate devotion, and without traditional faith, this drive often turns inward, leading to self-worship.
Dave Smith
“Fascism won, man. It's so ironic, sometimes when you really lose, they could say on paper, and I'm sure there's some historian professor who would say, no, like capitalism and communism won the Second World War and fascism was defeated. Except what arose out of it was the fascist model for everybody essentially.”
This quote offers a highly provocative and contrarian reinterpretation of 20th-century history, suggesting that the post-WWII world adopted elements of fascism despite its defeat.
Dave Smith
“The reality is that those boys died for nothing. That's over. And if you continue this, more boys will die for nothing.”
This quote directly confronts the painful and often avoided truth of the sunk cost fallacy in war, arguing against prolonging conflict.
Dave Smith
“We won the argument, we had the national debate, we won. And yet we're at war with Iran on behalf of Israel. That just feels totally unsustainable.”
This quote presents a stark paradox between perceived public opinion victory and actual policy outcomes, questioning the sustainability of a system where public will and government action diverge so sharply.
Dave Smith
“On every single crisis, the government and the media just lied through their teeth to the American people and got exposed. Like it's not like anyone now thinks, like maybe Saddam really did have weapons of mass destruction.”
This highly charged statement accuses government and traditional media of repeated, systemic deception that has been revealed, reflecting a deep public distrust in official narratives.
Dave Smith
“If you start dropping bombs on people, you start blowing things up and you know innocent people are gonna end up dying in that. So in that sense it is intentional.”
This quote challenges the common distinction between accidental and intentional harm in warfare, positing that foreseeable collateral damage makes the harm implicitly intentional.
Dave Smith